# 1913 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1913 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed
* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet (until 15 June); John William Gwynne Hughes (from 15 September)
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (until 11 March) Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen (from 4 April)
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank
* Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams
* Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes
* Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
* Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

## Events

* 19 February - Suffragette arson attack on a house being built for David Lloyd George near Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey. Emmeline Pankhurst, in a speech in Cardiff this evening, claims to have incited this and other incidents.
* 5 June - The last ship built at Porthmadog, Y Gestiana, is launched; on 4 October she is wrecked on her maiden voyage, on the coast of Nova Scotia.
* 14 June - Three years after leaving Cardiff on her fateful voyage to the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Terra Nova returns to the port, commanded by Scott's former comrade Teddy Evans.
* 14 October - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: 439 men are killed in a mining accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd - the worst accident in British mining history. 1913 is the peak year for coal production in Wales.
* 27 October - A tornado hits South Wales, killing four people.
* Diplomat William Henry Hoare Vincent is knighted.
* Carmarthen Farm Institute is founded - the first of its kind.
* Monmouthshire Training College is founded at Caerleon, with Edward Anwyl as its first principal.
* School of Mines founded at Treforest, a predecessor of the University of South Wales.

## Arts and literature
### Awards

* National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Abergavenny
** Chair - Thomas Jacob Thomas, "Aelwyd y Cymro"
** Crown - William Evans (Wil Ifan)

### New books
#### English language

* Sabine Baring-Gould - Lives of the British Saints, volume 4
* W. H. Davies - Foliage
* Frances Hoggan - American Negro Women During Their First Fifty Years of Freedom
* Thomas Gwynn Jones - Cofiant Thomas Gee
* Sir John Morris-Jones - Welsh Grammar: Historical and Comparative
* Edward Thomas - The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans

#### Welsh language

* T. Gwynn Jones - Brethyn Cartref
* Moelona - Teulu Bach Nantoer

### Music

* Robert Griffith - Llyfr Cerdd Dannau
* Morfydd Llwyn Owen - Nocturne (Charles Lucas Medal)

## Film

* The American adaptation of Ivanhoe is filmed at Chepstow Castle.

## Sport

* Boxing
** 2 June - Bill Beynon wins the British and Empire bantamweight championship.
* Rugby Union
** 18 January - Wales are defeated 12–0 by England in a game played at the National Stadium, Cardiff

## Births

* 7 March – E. Gwyndaf Evans, poet and archdruid (died 1986)
* 13 March – Tessie O'Shea, entertainer and actress (d. 1995)
* 29 March - R. S. Thomas, poet (d. 2000)
* 31 March - Dai Rees, golfer (died 1983)
* 8 May - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player (d. 1991)
* 27 May - Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop (d. 1995)
* 5 June - Moelwyn Merchant, poet and novelist (d. 1997)
* 15 June - Sir James Hamlyn Williams-Drummond, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 56
* 6 July - Gwyn Thomas, author (died 1981)
* 23 July - Michael Foot, politician, MP for Ebbw Vale 1960-1992 (died 2010)
* 7 September - William "Wendy" Davis, Wales international rugby player (d. 2002)
* 2 October - Vivian Ridler, printer (died 2009)
* 18 December - Eddie Morgan, Wales international rugby player (d. 1978)

## Deaths

* 4 February - Tom Williams, Wales international rugby player and sports administrator, c.52
* 8 February - James Webb, Wales rugby international, 50
* 16 February (in Australia) - Lewis Thomas, colliery proprietor and politician, 80
* 11 March - Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, British Army officer, politician and philanthropist, 81
* 19 March - John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia), harpist, 87
* 30 March - Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, politician, 60
* 3 April (in London) - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff, politician, 87
* 15 April - William Jones, Victoria Cross recipient, c.73
* 4 June (in London) - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician, 78
* 24 July - Hugh Brython Hughes, children's author, 65
* 17 August - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player, 49
* 22 September - Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, alpine mountaineer, 85
* c. 8 October - John Jones (Coch Bach y Bala), notorious criminal, c.59
* 6 November - Sir William Henry Preece, electrical engineer, 79
* 7 November (in Broadstone, Dorset) - Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist, 90
* 19 December (in South Africa) - Bert Gould, Wales international rugby player, 43
* date unknown - Thomas Thomas (apTommas), harpist and younger brother of John Thomas, 82/3